I guess my concern is one that was expressed by my colleague Mr. Bélanger a moment or two ago on another amendment, and that is that I'm not aware of the precise details of any of the other standards. I can only hold the minister accountable for the standards with which I have become familiar, or will become familiar, and which are codified in Canadian law. So I'm just wondering whether I'm holding the department up to a standard that we, as parliamentarians, really have no jurisdiction to impose directly. Willy-nilly, we say, okay, we want the standard that's established by ICAO, we want the one that's established by the Chinese, or by the Swiss, or whatever, without knowing what it is, unless we say “Please refer to the appendix”.
On May 28th, 2007. See this statement in context.